Five Minute Briefing - SAP
September 23, 2020
Published in conjunction with the Independent SAP Technical User Group (formerly the International Sybase User Group), this monthly publication contains news, market research, insight for the SAP user community, as well as ISUG-TECH news and information.
News Flashes
Global information and communications technology provider NEC Corporation has selected SAP Ariba solutions to help digitalize its procurement operations across its companies within and outside Japan. As part of its groupwide digital transformation strategy, NEC started its project to modernize the procurement of indirect materials.
The Onapsis Platform for Cybersecurity and Compliance is now an SAP endorsed app, available for online purchase on the SAP App Center. By addressing security and compliance early in transformation initiatives involving cloud, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, and DevOps, customers and service providers can be better prepared to accelerate these projects, ensure success, and stay protected.
SAP is releasing the SAP Litmos Training solution, customer experience edition, on the SAP Store, making it easier to train on demand from anywhere, at any time. Businesses around the world now have digital access to the tools needed to develop, manage, and extend world-class training to employees, partners, contractors, customers and more, according to SAP.
Stibo Systems is announcing that its Multidomain MDM platform STEP version 10.0 has achieved SAP certified integration with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, meaning that the solution has been proven to integrate with SAP solutions, enabling customers to exchange material master, customer master, and vendor master data.
Think About It
Major trends in technology are reshaping the role of the DBA at many organizations. The size and complexity of database systems continues to grow with higher data volumes, more workloads and an increasing rate of database deployments that need to be managed. DBAs are under constant pressure in a constantly evolving environment—fighting fires to keep the lights on while navigating the impact of cloud and automation on their daily jobs.